GEEKOM AE7 Mini PC Review + Teardown + Improvement Tips & Tricks

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[@GEEKOMPC]

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[@liveuk]

People have to have a monitor for a mini PC so why not have them in a monitor? This gives you a huge heat sink area.

[@leetucker9938]

@@liveuk no it doesnt

[@huluqi3972]

​@@liveuk the led and pcb inside the monitor also make the monitor a heat source, and also a closed space, I think it may be hotter built in a monitor or just similar as inside the small box, maybe a specially designed monitor with larger heat sink, multiple holes, air ways and fans will be better, similar as laptop or desktop pc

[@dKingviking]

A proper calibrated Hacker, Sorin

740€, is a tuff treat.

[@beer_goggler]

How much? You must be joking, you might as well just get a raspberry pi.

[@sergelavallee913]

Not worth it. And some people play engineers to modify electronic without knowing consquences on a long period of time. This is only to make money and..........wait till it brakes. lol people are not logic! How much some people get to advertise this pc? wake up guys!

[@LeadFarmer813]

Sorin.. Backup the bios chip!!.. no download available on their site!

[@JohnnyThomas-py3jv]

Your channel is a source of joy for me. 😄

[@alessandrovirdis520]

Nice little monster💪🏻

[@JustInspiredKent]

Very nice! It would be nice to see the transfer speeds over USB C to an external SSD to know how it would be for video edititng etc.

[@NorKavon]

Great timing. I got one of these last week. I've set it up for remote access to run in a remote ham radio shack. The heat generated is perfect to keep the temp perfect in the cold climate it will be in. So far the performance and reliability have been top notch.

[@Negiku]

It seems to perform much better than my liquid cooled 10700k after the mod 😅 so many power in a palm sized pc.

[@shiftctrlhack]

Ya AMD cpus this generation kick butt compared to Intel in most generations. Even last gen on these minis wipe Intel 11th / some 12th gen desktops. I have. 10700k build that have as a back now. I went with a 13700K -4070 and the cpu performance jump is insane. If I was you and you can go make the jump to a 12th gen or above with the igpu for quick sync . A 12600k beats all previous generation i9’s in performance and that IGPU is great for video editing in DaVinci. Even OBS using quick sync you can record 4K60 no issues.

[@Fox-BZH]

Hum... i will try soon liquid metal, it's impressive. Nice . thx

[@dirindirin3983]

U are master of this

[@MM-vs2et]

Didn't know Sorin has a beast PC. Delidded 14900k? Holy. Also love the janky mods. Actual nice performance improvement.

[@washingLad2014SamsungDestroy]

sorin we want you to do a vidoe of how you delidded your i9 14900k

[@CarMake]

Sorin! Thank you for this video. I have Mini PC ASUS PN51-S1 and power limit is locked to 11W!!! No Bios options and AMD APU software cannot bypass the physical limit. Now I see your shunt mod lol I will try on the ASUS board and report! Thank you for your amazing knowledge and videos!🙏

[@CarMake]

This is working! found 1MOHM resistor coming from DC IN, Soldered over top and now can use APU tuning software!!!!! CPU now doing 30W!!!! AMAZING!!!! WE HAVE PICTURE!!!! Thank you Sorin for the example and Inspiration! 🙏🙏

[@lucataszarek8782]

Hello 🤝nice little beast 👍👍👍👍👏👏👋👋👋👋👋

[@mharszkietv]

oh that very powerful mini pc

[@transformateur9969]

See you Sorin ! !

[@viniciusvbf22]

I love your reviews. If at all possible, please review a Sager notebook - or, in fact, any other notebook from the Clevo white-label brand. I've always been curious about your thoughts on such machines. Also, on mini PCs, I'd like some insights about the ones from Zotac. Thanks and have a nice Friday!!

[@mikecrawford9537]

Very cool. I wonder if you could get the board to fit in the Akasa Turing AC Pro fanless case... The NUC13VYKi5 does fit in that case (TDP up to 64w) and the rear ports look very similar to your Geekom.

[@croatiax6977]

Hello Sorin :) Thank you for reviewing Which liquid metal company would you recommend ? :)

[@router5840]

Nice 👍

[@jeffjemaol5009]

Do you have a tutorial on how to apply liquid metal on laptops? I am worried about damaging my laptop. I love your videos and learned many things, thank you so much

[@GROGGALORE]

Hmm I want one

[@ocsrc]

These need the TRRS ( Tip Ring Ring Sleeve ) adapter They have the two stereo left and right and the mic and the combined ground. I really wish they would have a separate headphone and mic ports.

[@jamie_ar]

Good review, but the USB ports you referenced as USB 4 are USB 3.2 no?

[@Kukilo_Kumo]

Who better geekom vs beelink ?

[@ferencszabo3504]

Now that's a proper nice PC! With that 90C I could heat my room!If someone would include a Google Coral or something similar, it would be a surveillance super house!power consumption would be great to know!

[@eliwell32]

Sorin, it is not a good idea to apply LM to bare copper heatsink because of diffusion LM to copper. To work with LM safely copper must be nickel plated.

[@jcb208]

There goes Sorin's warranty 😄

[@Timpano_Francesco_Repairs]

I real copy of Intel NUC, but very well engeneering especialy the cooling system tht with the mod you suggest on the rear of CPU can increase performance a little more necessary... seams a good product and price in line... thank Sorin for the review... bye Francesco Timpano fram Florence Italy

[@user-kr8tp3ko8z]

i have no name Chinese copy of intel nuc and its amazing for office work

[@gabest4]

It could have been much nicer. For example, if it had a speaker connector soldered, you could hear the bios beep on boot.

[@retrocomputinggrotto]

Looks very similar to the Intel NUC one that I have.

[@RishoveJana]

It's have no any cupon for Indian people 😊

[@ShellymanStudios]

Cause it's based on the NUC

[@Swenser]

Would be nice if you could send the display wirelessly to your mobile phone.

[@weerobot]

Cool...

[@luminousfractal420]

picked up a nice little nuc a while back. but its not got usbc which has turned into a pain in the butt with the adapters and compatibity. i was looking to get another $30 used deal...no chance theyre all empty shells atm where people have been stripping the windows os keys out of them. (they discovered my stash 😂). worth more in parts than as a unit. i csn get a brand new basic 15" laptop for the price of some of these used ones. interested to see what sorrins selling though. cost and options. mainly looking for a good foundation for home automation.

[@aliemlek]

👍👍👌👌

[@kansax8253]

I wonder how it would perform with that Honeywell phase change TIM vs liquid metal

[@x-fix]

Only thing that is missing on that little PC would be a CPU in a socket, it would make it perfect then I guess. :)

[@celalaksakal9937]

Sorin style review 😅

[@cherrymountains72]

Network speed is counted in BITS per second, not bytes. So it’s 2.5 GigaBITS per second.

[@leerzeichen1910]

could you "say more" about it please, maybe some educational video on YT or a topic? thx

[@Heichou96]

Yes he pronounced wrong but the speed test is actually showing Mbps, not MB/s. Anyway, for who asks, the difference is that their are 2 different unit measuring. 1 byte = 8 bits. Mbps has lowercase b, so it means bit, MB/s has instead a uppercase b, which means byte

[@user-kr8tp3ko8z]

you know that there is correlation between the two metrics so its the same think to say there is 1 hour or 60 minutes :D

[@cherrymountains72]

@@user-kr8tp3ko8z You are forgetting about the per second element. 1 byte = 8 bits. So a 2.5 gigabit/second is the same as 0.3125 gigabyte/second (or 320 megabyte per second which is the same).

[@renbooth4147]

I have a question what is the warranty on the unit and how much is it with the discount thanks

[@catalinneculai4541]

is that liquid metal not getting more liquid/fluid at higher temp?

[@deluxe1668]

Can this mini pc use for playing 4k videos?

[@omargadiry6238]

say hello to sorin tweaking

[@zodiacfml]

I was about to say that finally NUC pricing beats an equivalent laptop. However, I found that a Minisforum is selling for the same price with 64GB RAM!🤯🤯

[@deamooz9810]

Of course Sorin would delid his processor

[@EarthSouthside]

ryzen 5600 Desktop will get a 12000 in cinebench 23 6 core but real desktop cpu

[@nello315]

Have you scanned it for hidden virus. As there have been other Min pc with embedded virus from factory

[@orange11squares]

windows 11, the biggest virus.

[@Barbarapape]

Very impressive performance but for how long ? All that heat even with the large fan will takes it's toll sooner or later. I would rather spend this sort of outlay on a tower PC with plenty of cooling and off the shelf parts that can be replaced and upgraded.

[@user-kr8tp3ko8z]

im having mini pc which i use at work every day for the last 4 years, just change the thermal paste and it will serve you good... but for gaming i wont count on it :D

[@Barbarapape]

@@user-kr8tp3ko8z For moderate use and some maintenance they will last, but not for long if the cpu is at a very high core temperature.

[@zippythechicken]

is this liquid metal mercury?

[@user-kr8tp3ko8z]

i think its gallium and other metals but no mercury

[@zippythechicken]

@@user-kr8tp3ko8z yeah that would be crazy if it was mercury but I don't know any other liquid metal.. thanks i will look into it more.

[@sinchrotron]

I feel decived. Why I cannot get full power from the factory?

[@MM-vs2et]

Temperatures. Liquid metal is notoriously dangerous in unexperienced hands. You can kill your computer with that stuff. So they opted to use thermal pasted instead to avoid any such risks.

[@sinchrotron]

@@MM-vs2et "factory" and "inexperienced hands" should not go along, isn't it?

[@MM-vs2et]

@@sinchrotron I meant when it gets to the end user's hands. There's lots of cases of factory applied liquid metal that seeped through the chip and the heatsink, contacting other components and killing the system. Usually due to movement and bumps that doesn't happen to desktop PCs. You can see how this creates warranty issues. Laptop manufacturers avoids liquid metal for this reason. Except ASUS, they could handle more warranty claims I guess. Another reason is lifespan. Liquid metal pushes higher clock speeds which degrades the silicon faster, thus decreasing the manufacturer advertised lifespan. Again creating warranty issues on the distributor side.

[@PhoneRepairRO]

In 2 weeks the liquid metal will eat the copper! Non't use on copper heatsink!

[@viralbull8085]

Can you play rocket league on this?

[@salvamipc]

So the only resemblance its the shape? Jeje, mate, the outside its a 1:1 perfect clone, button position, port layout, exept the colour and the logo. Why, so they can copy the motherboard as well. They are allot of companies rhat makes mini pc, dell, lenovo, hp, fudjtsu, none of them look alike. So please saying is just a box, doent cut it

[@CHRIS-FIX-1990]

its a nice pc but the problem ist the price for this money you can buy a nice gaming machine

[@KC-nd7nt]

Algorithm

[@venerandarain3]

500 Mbps, thats alot and high internet Bandwidth, i only have 30 Mbps 😅😅

[@leetucker9938]

or install Linux and make it 10 times faster

[@90SecondsofAviation]

Was this review sponsored by GEEKOM ?

[@leetucker9938]

lick squid metal

[@davidlguerr]

Those mini PCs fail alot. Also if the fan breaks good luck finding a spare, these chinese brands do not sell spares. No BIOS updates as well. If buying a mini PC better to go for a professional one from Dell, Lenovo or HP.

[@user-kr8tp3ko8z]

why would you need monthly bios updates... i have no name Chinese mini pc and dell laptop, the bios updates are just BS

[@davidlguerr]

@@user-kr8tp3ko8z Who mentioned monthly BIOS updates? I just mentioned BIOS updates. With this brand, you get none at all. There are always firmware bugs, and exploits that need to be patched.

[@Marksetter]

it is a generic laptop cooler fan, which you can find on amazon, aliexpress, etc.. you just need to make sure you match the Voltage, as they vary. I know this bit from experience, lol

[@ShellymanStudios]

I was going to buy a Geekom Mini PC, and bought a Lenovo Idealcentre Mini instead.

[@leetucker9938]

we have a nice fanny

[@pn8902]

Be careful with these mini pc’s they are getting popular and so some come with malware on them

[@Diagoras_de_Melos]

The technique of applying liquid metal to a processor crystal raises serious questions about the competence of the author. What will prevent the liquid metal from leaving the crystal and causing a short circuit on the motherboard?..

[@user-kr8tp3ko8z]

he applied it perfectly - thin layer that wont cause issues and the pc is staying for the most part on the ground not sideways....

[@sergelavallee913]

It's not worth the price. Today people have lost their mind and logic. I would never pay this price. Like my cell phone, I made it myself and it's modern and brand new and it did cost me 120$ brand new.

[@salvamipc]

this look like a ripoff intel nuc.

[@Marksetter]

well, since intel arent making nucs anymore, i dont see the problem. too much competition now in the market, so they cant keep their prices inflated.

[@salvamipc]

Agreed, but make your own desing. Dont get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a bad machine or that I wouldn't buy it, I just dont like when companies take shortuts and uses someone else desingn and not just the exterior plastic, to create a cheaper product.

[@Marksetter]

@@salvamipc I don't see how, it is a small squarish box, just like any other of the small squarish cc nuc boxes on the market.. What do you want them to build it into a triangular or octagonal enclosure, which while cool, would be impractical. The popular saying, 'Why re-invent the wheel?' works well in this situation.

[@ShellymanStudios]

These Mini PCs are based on Intel NUC....

[@pihmusik]

[@dmisi1]

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[@indomitablereasoning2875]

Take over the windows crap , Linux power and a big mini PC big comes up.

[@MAXSHNC]

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